The Seven Wonders

So I had the privilege of giving away my daughter’s kittens. Mom cat had a litter of four and we kept the runt. The other three needed to find other homes to start tearing up instead of our own. So, since I live in a nothing town with (literally) one stop light, I decided to post it on Craigslist. All recent news stories aside, I wanted this done as soon as possible. So I listed it. All surrounding larger cities could see it. Kitten’s are much harder to adopt in the winter months since cats normally mate in the spring and summer. This should be easy.

It was. I listed them for free. Wrote about them being litter trained and weened, and blah blah. My phone blew up within 10 minutes of the posting. Texts and calls. I think I got 18 voicemails/texts with in a 30 minute period. Why not?? They’re TOTES CRAY CRAY!

So in summary: Kittens. FREE.

Every..

Single…

MOTHER$%&^%&# that called or texted me wanted MORE THAN FREE. They wanted me to bring litter, litterboxes, food, waterbottles, bowls, scratching post whatevers. Holy Good Gawd you name it, they wanted something more. WTF WHY? Where in my ad would I possibly list “Hey, act now and I’ll even spend my own money on you!”

I’m effing WalMart, yo. Not only THAT,..

Every..

Single…

MOTHER%$&#^$@ wanted me to drive to THEM. Not come to me. Not meet halfway. No. Lord forbid it’s free and they do the leg work. Oh helllllll no. Apparently I am the one hard up and in need of a favor. This is 30-minutes-or-less Free Kitten Delivery now. Not down the block. Not in the next town. Everyone lived 45 minutes to an hour away. All of them.. I stress, ALL OF THEM expected me to drive to them some hour away, and drive some hour back. No one suggested to meet me anywhere. When I suggested it, you could cut the reluctance with a knife. Pathetic

Actually, the amount someone would have to pay me to take Cinn would be the amount for the one-way airline ticket to someplace I’d be sufficiently certain that she’d want to stay so she would never work her way back.

…while I’m on the subject, and apparently talking to myself, what is it with Cinnamon’s fondness for rocketry? Is this part of an oddly scienc-y bent, what with the biological shenanigans she engaged in previously? Are we harboring an Einstein here? Or does she just enjoy blowing things up?

An enjoyment of photography from the Slutty One can have a couple of different connotations, not all of them particularly innocent (though for some of those I think she’d want tripod or remote as opposed to a new lens).

Same as an interest in things that go high into the air, fire-based propellants, and biological abominations can be…perhaps less than pure intellectual curiosity for a sociopath.

You know, there are some REALLY nasty pathogens that can’t live long when dry but can live indefinitely in a wide variety of liquids.

Lack of flammable propellant does not make sociopathic behavior definitely less likely. Also there are flammable liquids that might not melt the plastic. Also it could be a delivery vehicle for ratchantula egg sacs (assuming they follow spider tendencies for the purposes of airborne delivery).

NEVER underestimate a sociopath’s ability to surprise you. However screwed up you might be, they can go at least one step farther without throwing up. Even if you’re a sociopath too, one individual can’t think of EVERY awful idea.

I can’t remember if I saw it from him or elsewhere, but I really liked the Amazon product for the steering wheel mounted tray advertised as useful for beverages or to sit your laptop on. While there are still some on there, the original one I saw had two pictures from the vendor and over 90 user submitted images that were all horrific car accidents.

“Fellas have you ever had the experience of a woman yelling out another man’s name in the height of passion? Well this woman was yelling out the names of men who have never, ever lived. Fantasy men. Chewbacca Spiderman Papa Smurf. I’m thinking, ‘Is she crazy like it says on her bracelet, or is she just looking at my sheets? I don’t know.'”

I debated just putting the question to himself part, but I thought that might be too obscure. That’s from the only CD I’ve ever literally spit what I was drinking on my windshield from laughing while listening to it, though, and I do normally listen to my comedy CDs in the car for my first full listen-thru.

I will say that the vocal majority on craigslist doesn’t actually “read” the postings they reply to (used to manage an apartment complex, which included posting to craigslist & setting apartment showings) I honestly can’t count the number of times I’d get asked how much rent was, if we took government housing assistance vouchers, or even “how many bedrooms?” when the post was titled “1 bedroom apartment for rent” It’s like going into the $1 store & asking how much everything is! (The old $1 stores, not the current “everything is around a buck-ish” places we have now)

A guy I work with said he and his wife had a contest while remodeling their house for the tersest “free” item descriptions that would be taken. I think he said the winner was “bag o’ knobs”, which had some guy gratefully drive several hours to pick up his bag of door knobs.

Only time I’ve advertised similar was a horrible futon cushion. It was lovingly described as a really horribly uncomfortable cushion that wasn’t really fit for its intended use. It was picked up in less than a day by a college student from whom I got the feel that he definitely had hijinks-ish plans as opposed to futon-ish plans for it, though I didn’t press for details. I heartily approved and was glad to assist.

My mother-in-law was trying to get rid of an old fridge, once. She Left it outside with a “FREE” sign taped to it. 4 days, it’s still there. On a whim, she changed the sign to “$20 OBO” and the thing was taken within 6 hours.

Hahahahah. At the hospital, we would get these gigantic wooden crates in. All shapes and sizes due to the medical systems and equipment that would come in. And we have NO WAY to get rid of these things. So I would leave notes taped to the outside on the loading dock. The biggest one I ever had, with folding ramp and 2 $40 piano hinges attaching the door, I taped a sign to:

“FREE CRATE!
CAN FIT UP TO FIVE MONKEYS”

Sat there for about a month. On the other hand. Someone put an old dilapidated fridge out there. The insides covered in God-only-knows (dried red and yellow stains,) and it reeked like urine. Gone in 15 minutes.

I live next to a large apartment complex with crazy rich tenants. They tend to throw out perfectly good furniture due to fashion crazes. No one ever pickups the virtually new furniture because everyone “knows ” that no one would be crazy enough to throw out something that good unless something was wrong with it. Now horrible looking junk on the other hand gets picked up fairly quickly.

The key I found is some form of online forum to say “Random free item at this location. First come, first served.”

I’ve seen visibly broken CRT monitors gone in under 15 minutes from that sort of thing. Very weird, but you get the competitive instinct of, “I have to get it before someone else can” going then it’ll be gone quick.

For your crate, I would’ve probably taken a picture of it with the sign visible and not taken it, even had I a vehicle to carry it and a less than pressing need for it, so that others could also be amused by it.

I always use the “like voting in Chicago” analogy when talking about “early and often” situations. Glad to see confirmation from a Chicago native that I’m not the only one who’s heard that phrase and association.

I was thinking Juniper probably tracked him as opposed to just lured him. Doesn’t she have the ability to follow the trail of a vulnerable male past puberty over anything under three-quarters of a mile?

But yeah, obviously Anise’s lures are only for those with an epic beard.

I suspect Chief Buckingham tries to keep that relationship on the down low, though I also suspect it’s an open secret at the station.

Mr. Blue uses both, we seemed to have experienced a full governor yesterday after mentioning this, but now, less than half was appearing on my IE last night, and now on the fox in my library? He’s yipping more than that stupid music video and hiding at least 70% of the governor.

He’s off to the right on my browser and no scrollbar. If I maximize the additional part of the browser is just blue and he’s still covered. I can see enough to see still December stats, so I hadn’t been worried about saying anything yet.

That look on Cinn’s face! Oh gosh, wait, wait, Sister X just shows up, vanishes, and NO ONE says anything about it? I also love how she just knew when she would be needed and just leaves afterwards. But still….

Maybe it’s just me…but I’m starting to think I should’ve voted for Ginger. I still laughed, and I still love the comic, but I just realized that neither one of the “main” characters is even in this strip, Ellie’s pretty much just been a passenger (literally and figuratively) for a while, and Quinn’s been visible but silent.

I realize I said earlier “more strips are always good” before the vote, but I hope that our Two Broke Girls (…hey, they should make a show about that) get a few more lines or active parts.

…wait a minute. One’s a brunette with an ample… physique, we’ll say, and a rough relationship with her mother. The other’s a thinner, taller blonde who’s just now realizing she has to worry about money and is trying to work on reclaiming any of the luxuries of her former life.

Here, one’s a taller, thinner brunette with a rough relationship with her mother, and the other’s a blonde with an ample… physique, we’ll say, who’s just now realizing she has to worry about money and is trying to work on reclaiming any of the luxuries of her former life.

…I will pay good money to see these two open a cupcake business and then for either Ellie or Quinn to get a bit role in the remixed version of “Thor” in this universe.

Unless all characters were put on a comparative lineup, there are too many characters for that to be comprehensive. I was just going by hazy memories of impressions and the cast page picture which has their heads level with Ellie slightly in front and her foot farther down.

Find an establishment with only one male working there, seduce him, and at a certain point in what he’d though would be sexy funtimes he finds he can’t take it any more and runs away screaming, “Ahhhh! Your dead, little eyes!”

At that point she can loot at her leisure. Even longer if the cops arrest him for indecent exposure, which happens more often when she picks businesses near elementary schools.

A person could be prejudiced against cosplay or be irritated with an accent she frequently uses as an affectation. I get the feeling that Pumpkin has some artsy tendencies which might not be as flamboyantly irresponsible as Anise’s, but enough that it could get on someone’s nerves.

From a general population stance, I’d put Ellie and Pumpkin neck-and-neck with Ellie in a slight lead in terms of arbitrary likability and ease of getting along with. With someone using a rocket launcher in a toy store near some relatives, well, that’s not an average member of the general population.

With what we’ve seen of Sister X, if she could stand exactly one of the seven and not any of the others, I could see any of the seven be that one, even Cinn or Juniper. Though if it were Tarra, the being able to stand her would also probably include some fairly spectacular competition activities that might do super hero-level damage to their surroundings.

Sorry if it’s been brought up before, but has anyone else noticed that last week’s cast page had Sister X punching into the Buckingham sisters’ cast panel with Ellie going “Uh oh.”? Just asking because I find Sister X’s now complete ownage of said cast panel to be somewhat hilarious.

I once drove 240 miles to deliver a cat that got left with me to a new and caring home. That being said, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU! Sheesh, I can see not wanting to come all the way to your place, but to not go to a midway point? Come on, its not like kittens are some underground illicit narcotic where you have to deal with a funny looking guy named Jose. They are kittens! I hope at least one of the respondents were reasonable. Our last cat died last winter at the age of 19. We got two new kitten this last summer at a no kill shelter in California.

240 miles?? That’s a heck of a cat delivery. Don’t feel bad about it. I too ended up driving about 40 minutes in the end to a mall in Huntsville and just told the closest inquirers to meet me there. I was more concerned with them going to a good home.

but you never know in the end… My family’s cat had a litter. We were able to give away all but two to distant family members and not some neighbors. A few months later we found out accidentally that one of those neighbors owned a large snake. They claimed that the “kittens ran away in the dead of the night.” Actual quote.

Yeah, that’s actually something that people in some animal communities mention – especially if you’re in an area with lots of snake breeders. The workaround is simple – charge a small amount for the kittens (like $50), and most of the breeders will stay away, since it’s cheaper to buy more traditional snake food than a $50 kitten. At least, for the size of snake that would eat a kitten.

Well, I don’t want to have anything to do with his special purpose, that’s for sure.

However one of my longstanding goals in life is to do something he did. Without setting it up, have someone ask me for a balloon, check my pockets, and then pull one out already inflated. So I can’t really say much bad about him.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That’ll do him a load of good when their dad is chief. Well, maybe it’s not THAT funny. After all, Herb might end up giving them a nice, stern talk about causing such mayhem on his shift. But I bet he’d congratulate them on accomplishing their missions.

Concerning your kitten problems, I can relate. One of my sisters has a habit of rescuing kittens from her barn when something happens to the mama-cat, and promptly abandons them at my home. Because she KNOWS I will take care of them, and that my dad will find homes for them once they are big enough. Sometimes we get multiple litters a year. I love the wee beasts, but they can be exhausting, especially when they are still very small and need to be bottle-fed.

I have a cousin who use to take all the strays from her neighborhood to the SPCA. For years and years when she was growing up.

Then later when she’s was on her own, wanted a cat. Went to the SPCA to adopt one, and they refused her because she had brought so many in in the past. Ridiculous for them to decline someone ASSUMING they’re abandoning their own pets. Not simply rescuing strays.

“Call the cops? How lame. Like the cops would even come near us anyways. After the last time they had a run in with Anise….they are still going to therapy. Don’t test me, little boy. Now take my money.”

A run-in with Anise caused more therapy than a run-in with Cinn? I mean, we know Cinn’s had at least one run-in with the cops. Has your dad kept her from talking to any cops for very long? I’d think she’d cause more therapy than Anise.

Wouldn’t those things pull out easier than the real thing? I mean, I remember a story that floated around my high school about one of the… slackers. He was a big slacker, and he pulled the plugs out of the principal’s hair transplant.

This was back in the days before corporal punishment started to diminish. But I can’t recall if the principal administered the punishment or the father later on. . .